These plains are the taboleiros, of which there exists also another kind, which are covered with brushwood, of stinted height, from the nature of the soil, but it is close and higher than a man on horseback.
Plenty of good milk is the proper foundation to make a good animal; if stinted when a calf, a year's growth is lost.
It is because they have been stinted and starved at some period of their growth.
But oftener far they sought him than they found, For seldom was he drawn away from toil; Seldomer stinted time held due to toil; For if one night his panes were dark, the next They gleamed far into morning.
Mother Mary stintedher song and sighed; Babe Jesus said never a word.
So the two brothers issued from a second private postern of the palace; and they never stinted wayfaring by day and by night, until they reached a tree a middle of a meadow hard by a spring of sweet water on the shore of the salt sea.
Then they departed and stinted not journeying till nightfall, when they halted and ate some victual, and took Badr al-Din Hasan out of his chest and gave him a meal and locked him up again.
Some imagined her studies hadstinted her growth; and all were convinced her education had made her such a fright.
Nor was this fellowship vouchsafed to me 15 With stinted kindness.
Even Belisarius, the first and most loyal soldier of the empire, does not appear to have been trusted: in the second Gothic war the Emperor stinted him of troops and hampered him with colleagues.
But Belisarius was ill-supplied with men; he had fallen into disfavour at Court, and the imperial ministers stinted him of troops and money.
Such an avenue is truly a noble approach to the favoured residence of a grand Duke.
We rose early, and went to Melrose, six miles, before breakfast.
And thus they fought all the long day, and never stinted till the noble knights were laid to the cold earth; and ever they fought still till it was near night, and by that time was there an hundred thousand laid dead upon the down.
All this must be taken into the account, for it is better to have even but a few trees, and those what trees should be, than a whole forest of stinted things, writhing and pining through a course of sickly existence.
In this remark, a stintedand parsimonious spirit is not suggested.
Not a tree, nor even a bush is permitted to stand near the growing crop, if they can prevent it; and where one is not stinted in the area of his domain, their example should be followed.
Oh, let me strive to make the most Of the poor stinted soul, I nipped Of budding wings, else now equipped For voyage from summer isle to isle!
Here finding a little water in a ravine puddle, we halted, and served out a stintedration of dried meat to each individual instead of dinner, which, so far from gratifying, tended to stimulate our desire of food.
Among the fewstinted and withered grapes, we distinguished a small cespitose species of agrestis, and several others which are thought to be undescribed.
Slow growth gives harder roots of worse flavor, as well as a stinted crop.
Trees removed from shaded situations to the open field will be stinted in growth for some time, and may be permanently injured.
The dog that is stinted in his early growth will never do its owner credit.
In young dogs the emaciated appearance, stinted growth, fetid breath, and frequent fits, are indications not to be mistaken.
The young shoots never sprang up where the old parades were, and they present bald spots, bearing only stinted vegetation.
Almost the entire line of the fortifications may be traced upon the brow of the cliff, which is rocky, and bare of every thing but stinted grass and dwarf cedars.
The outworks are traceable several rods back into the stinted forest.
Never sithence hath the castle stinted of burning, and I tell you that of this castle and one other will be kindled the fire that shall burn up the world and put it to an end.
Perceval looked at the hall from one end to the other and saw that it was right rich, and the damsel, in whom was full great beauty, stinted of making dole to look at Perceval.
All around it are fir, and tamarac, and spruce of a stinted and slender growth, dead at the top, and with lichens and moss hanging down in sad and draggled festoons from their desolate branches.
Here many of the mountains have a very barren aspect, producing only a few stinted shrubs, and here and there a tuft of coarse grass.
The banks have some wood on them, but it appears stinted and crooked, like that on the bleak hills in England.
From old Hannah Mrs. Kennedy had, learned how her predecessor had been stinted by the doctor, and could he that moment have looked into her heart he would have seen there a fierce determination to avenge the wrongs so meekly borne.
From the emoluments of a profession I might have derived an ample fortune, or a competent income, instead of being stinted to the same narrow allowance, to be increased only by an event which I sincerely deprecated.
So moderate were our hopes, that the original impression had been stinted to five hundred, till the number was doubled by the prophetic taste of Mr. Strahan.
